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It’s so…black! You can hardly make out its shape…light just seems to fall into it! That is the word of David Kipping of the ...
WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...
The president’s proposed budget includes major cuts to NASA — among them, the elimination of funding for the Nancy Grace ...
They found good fits for models that abiological processes could ... More information: Luis Welbanks et al, The Challenges of ...
Webb Space Telescope reveals a surprisingly clear atmosphere on planet TOI-421 b, helping scientists understand the evolution ...
It’s 9 a.m. on Monday morning, and I’m on the sixth floor of Sterling Hall at UW–Madison. Here, in the newly formed Wisconsin ...
New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.
Webb is helping scientists understand these gassy exoplanets 'in a way that was not possible prior to the telescope’s launch, ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has found water vapor swirling in the air of a distant, boiling-hot alien planet, a new ...
Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class ...
These types of exoplanets are some of the most common in our galaxy - but they've remained mysterious until now.
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have taken a major step toward understanding a puzzling type of planet ...